World's Top Rugby Countries by Nation - Visualised

 

The team at White Box are interested in many things, although two could definitely be seen as standouts; data, and sports. Data analyst intern, Sai, decided to combine the two to discover the world’s top rugby players, and how they are distributed by their country of birth.

Stay tuned for an article on how Sai scraped the data from a number of websites to generate the database of players statistics.

The RPI which ranks the players stands for Rugbypass Index, and is a measure of how each players influences their teams ability to win games.

 
 

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